this new technology will see you next time so then enjoy the ride. breaking news a passenger plane has overshot the runway and crashed into one of moscow's main highways only eight people were on board four of them were killed and four injured . forecasting live from moscow you're watching r t but our breaking news dominates this hour pilot error is thought to be the most likely cause of a plane crash in moscow the passenger jet overshot the runway at the city's vnukovo

airport and plowed into a major highway eight people were on board four of them have been killed and four injured well. joins us live now from the airport with more what we know about what happened. as you just said investigation has just been opened and we know so far that eight was. due to zero for russian plane that crashed earlier today flight number nine two six eight flying from the czech republic to russian capital there were eight people on board and as far as we've been hearing defense minister just now four of them have been killed and four others are right now in a very hot situation and they've been as severely injured and they've been taken to one of the hospitals here in moscow as you've just said pilot error. is right

now considered to be one of the most likely causes of these catastrophe and we also have been hearing from different sources that captain is expected to be it's got to be among those killed in this catastrophe and. other crew members as well could be among those dads and is there any word yet from the ministry official about casualties that you know of. russia's defense minister has just announced that officially all the people out of eight passengers of that plane have been killed in this catastrophe and this is the latest information we have so far i mean what is the atmosphere like where you are presumably there were other people passengers who were taking planes going on holiday and the like. yes absolutely we've been hearing reports earlier that run

away with nuclear airport where i am right now in that very airport where the crashed plane was expected to land and actually eventually failed to do has been closed following the catastrophe obviously and we've also been hearing that the planes extracted to depart from these airports are delayed and those expected to land in this airport have been rerouted to and i've just been able to speak to the airport staff and i was told that at least seven plies have already landed in another airport of most code saddened by dead of an airport but. although we were hearing these reports people are still coming to the airport and i think that most likely the planes that are expected to depart from this port will not reroute it is actually very hard to to take the plane physically or to take all the passengers on one from one airport to another so i think that those who are expected to depart

from local airport those flights will be delayed and this is exactly what are people waiting right now and as for the mood there. right now here passengers they're not canny they're just waiting for more information for more details to emerge and waiting for their flights to to be actually for for the time to for their flights ok from the army or from the national thank you. well we can now speak to an eyewitness noriko if you can hear us tell us what have you seen. yes but first i saw the flame in the smoke and it was not quite clear waters happened but when we pulled up. opposite the side of the incidents we saw that there was

a plane and so we decided to. go right since of this mess because obviously it all happened just several minutes before we were driving along the we had no risk you services no ambulances there. now so that's what's how it all started and how concerned were you with what you saw. it's really difficult to express my emotions i didn't quite i dissed just decided we need to pull up their own want to do something since there was no one side to me no rescue services. no rescue starts i realized that we were the only chance for the for those who still survive and that's why we took the decision

to pull up and go there ok eyewitness there speaking through an interpreter thank you very much for joining us. well we're joined live in the studio now by correspond to the rescue has been looking at the background of this model of plane what can you tell us i've actually flown the spline on several occasions more of our flown this this particular company red wings looked to me a very good plane i never thought it would actually crash on the statistics they speak for themselves this is the first incident involving the triple of two or four plying where people died so the first fatal incident involving this plane only once only on one occasion this plane which was designed back in the eighty's and has been in operation for a little more than a decade only once it's been actual incident two years ago it had a crash landing nobody was killed only a few were minor injuries were reported back then so this is the first time something like this happened is generally considered considered to be a very reliable plane as we've heard from the aviation experts and the most likely

case as it's been said by the by the authorities right now that this particular accident was caused by human error by a pilot of any kind and what about the company that owns this plane do we know anything about them it's a charter company called the red wings flying to different destinations across the whole world mostly delivering russian tourists to popular holiday destinations in turkey and in the middle east it's owned by alexander the libya russian billionaire who is a very prominent figure he has been trying to run for mayor as office several years ago he also owns several british newspapers. including the evening standard as far as i can remember so generally it's been a very good company i've used them couple of times and you know i've never thought they would actually have an incident something like that and their security record speaks for themselves safety record speaks for itself they never had an incident of

any kind before so this is the first time they've had anything like that but the plane was empty as far as we know from the from the. authorities almost empty it's designed to carry more than two hundred passengers and there were only eight passengers on board all members of the crew so this is yet to be investigated and determined why this plane was empty because according to the aviation experts landing almost empty plane is much more difficult than landing than landing fully boarded a plane given the weather conditions given that it's winter probably this this is what happened with this plane this is was the main reason why everything went wrong and we've been looking at these and latest pictures showing emergency services here some of them actually boarding the plane resume of the ambulance crews and investigators i mean how prepared would they be for this kind of thing well you know the security services and the fire workers are just the kind of people who never care about the new year's celebrations we are certainly just hours away from the new year and this means

a low huge party all the cross the country but not for these guys because they have to be ready twenty four seven and the new year time in fact in russia always comes with different sorts of accidents household accidents fires so the security services are always ready these particular security services are working in the airports so they know how to handle situations like this and maybe the death toll could have been higher if not for these guys working there because they were immediately there on the spot taking out the fire taking out the blaze at this crashed airplane and maybe they were instrumental in preventing more casualties in this accident as you say that we do understand that the plane captain is likely to have been killed in this plane crash we heard from aviation experts as well saying that these planes do have a pretty good safety record they would be good safety equipment on board so it's very difficult to say how this happened isn't it definitely if you remember these smolensk tragedy of the plane crash which killed the polish president it was also

to pull a plane but that model was much older than this involved in this accident today so . they do have enhanced upgraded. equipment on board safety equipment which would always tell you if they need to rain comes ahead or any function of a chassis or anything else wrong happening with the plane so. we talked to the aviation experts and of all been saying in one voice that given the reliability of this plane this is most likely the pilot's error the pilots mistake which is to blame for this tragedy ok we do understand that four injured to severe head injuries this is from the health ministry so for now alexey thank you. well let's now talk to an eyewitness side believe alexander who was at the incident site to examine we understand you've now left the scene but tell us what you did see. so the plague the plane was lying just

near the highway in the pit. it was in the pits but the cabin was. on the sides side fold the roof. it was crushed. separately from the t.v. . it was all to. one hundred eighty degrees and there were a lot of wind then working on the scene. just picking up some degree. for installing from the light equipment there was a lot of police. doing several five or six ambulances but. although we were. in about twenty minutes on the cost we have

seen me any addictions and everything seemed to be just. ignored or no panic all the nation is off to right now. they closed. their way beauty about one hundred two. and the highway was open for the traffic. out of marco it was only one lane and delay going to moscow. and somewhere about. five hundred or six hundred meters away from the pond to from some of the road. counties and says i thank you for giving us those details of what you saw and we also have another eyewitness cucina she told us how she helped those injured in the crash. i saw one woman were covered in blood it was a flight attendant christina she said that the plane overshot the runway but they

weren't carrying any passengers and that there is another surviving flight attendant there and the pilot survived to the rescue unit came there it does but the ambulance couldn't get through because of the traffic just gave the injured not attended first aid job best knowledge could have mother to tell her she's ok that's a woman blankets and clothing we could find and even found across the texas hospital which. i witnessed there of the crash that happened today where i spoke to aviation experts you make a rush and explained how a pilot error led to a similar crash landing a few years ago. there are four is a fairly reliable aircraft seventy three basis for the use so far as the will service and so far there were only one last accident which happened doing years ago in two thousand and ten and it was not because of some

hardware malfunction if i can say so because it was not because of the aircraft but it was pilot error so they were using. the wrong g.p.s. while they were using the i think we must not certified for the preseason landing so they just crashed one mile before the runways. as i said it was pilot error as about this accident. to zero four could carry more than two hundred passengers so it is quite it's quite unusual that there are only eight passengers a lot of such a big aircraft to zero for. that we can confirm that the emergency services have confirmed that the captain of the aircraft has been killed. on our breaking news pilot error is thought to be the most likely cause of a plane crash in moscow redwings flight number ninety six eight from the czech

republic overshot the runway at the city's airport and plowed into a major highway only eight people all of them crew members were on board the plane which can carry more than two hundred passengers or four people have been killed the other four are in serious condition with head injuries it's reported that two pilots include the captain are among the dead were a criminal case has now been launched. so there will be back with more news after a short break. trimmings and this is true even for specialists how a voice can produce several sounds it kwame's. art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like

a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also surrounding objects like reverse forests and even stones souls by imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. was. to get to one of the five main styles of scrotes engine it imitates the gentle breezes of summer chara whose name means great hunter says he suspects adopt. there are special instruments that accompany the singing if gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says it wants to leave to poor shefford who had the best horse that won

every competition but jealous people killed it the horse was revived as an instrument that was it of stop the fall is causing the spirit of the horse going to his dream he said make an instrument from a tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody and this human is called cry over again. other world news now international peace envoy for syria says there are only two

directions for the conflict a political process all hell and russia's foreign minister at a meeting with me in moscow said the syrian opposition refusal to talk with the government and he paves the way for further bloodshed to go pissing off has been the fall in the talks the biggest stumbling block in the syrian conflict right now is that the opposition is rejecting any compromise saying strictly that president assad has to go while i sat himself says he's not going anywhere he's protecting his country and moscow says nobody is able to persuade him to change his mind and neither side is willing to put its weapons down if. you know the only alternative is. really hand. on the political process then we have all of us to work seriously for a political process mr brahimi added that this should be a syrian political process which should be based on agreements reached by world

powers in geneva and they include forming a transitional government which could include all sides of the conflict but the opposition is not only unwilling to negotiate with the syrian authorities it's now rejecting direct talks with moscow which has been trying to be a mediator and we've heard from the leader of the recently established opposition coalition who demanded moscow to apologize for what he said was support for president assad. i understand that mr hotep is probably not very experienced in politics if he's looking to be a serious politician it is in his interests to hear our position from us and not from the media that sometimes distorts information so i'll repeat we're ready to talk to all opposition forces but we start from the premises that they should not only think about their own ambitions but also the fate of the syrian people and if they think that russia could play a role in the country's tragedy they should meet our representatives without

preconditions on notice meanwhile the violence is continuing to ask syria there have been more terrorist attacks the rebels have been also attacking state military airstrips of while government troops have been responding with more shelling. iran's navy has deployed in the strait of hormuz a key shipping route for one fifth of the world's oil and showcasing tehran's military capabilities with maneuvers devised to test combat ship submarines recognizance and a new range missile but the drills come amid growing pressure and sanctions against iran's nuclear program global diplomacy specialists. rich says the purpose of the exercises is not to show hostility but it reading this to defend the country's borders. for the past thirty two years war the west the united states is waged a covert war against iran so you want has been preparing itself and demonstrating.

to defend itself i don't believe that iran would ever take action if we see more naval military exercises right now it's because the media is focusing on iran whereas. there was operation lucky mariner with twenty seven countries participating. although a lot of them were of service and they were all the way the persian it was territory in the media was silent but when you run demonstrates his readiness to defend its sovereignty and its national interest then there is the media focus on you on. what are some other world news not a sound the clock is ticking for the us were negotiations on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff again produced no results publicans and democrats to reach a deal on how to reduce the national deficit tax hikes and spending cuts with billions of dollars to actually take effect and juggle the first round of talks is

show deal for saturday barack obama is already considering an emergency bill for low earners and the unemployed if agreement is not reached before the deadline. the six men involved in the gang rape of a student in india have been charged with murder just hours after their victim died in hospital if convicted will could face the death penalty cases sparked protests in new delhi with the authorities resorting to banning mass gatherings in parts of the city people are still joining to express their anger and sorrow while demanding extreme measures to keep the streets safe. japan's newly elected prime minister has taken a tour of the fukushima nuclear plant which was devastated by a massive tsunami last year wearing up. tech to suit be inspected the complex and admitted that dealing with the fallout is an unprecedented challenge the previous democrat government plan to scrap the use of nuclear power but i bet is liberal

party is preparing to reverse that decision. well it's been a turbulent year for russian politics with putin's come back to the kremlin met with opposition rallies last pussy riots infamous cathedral performance protest and the court case that followed split russian society well here's how some of the r.t.e. staff who covered it all in twenty twelve remember what happened. presidential election twenty three cameras up on this roof correspondents throughout moscow and i mean you come across lines throughout the night was a great night was. the real color was right behind us was in it but but so one point when putin came out to show me like crowds way past the doom of the thousands

and thousands of people will celebrating his victory one of the main points the unprecedented protests that took place up to that election work and protest rallies that never really feels like we're actually taking part in the event it was during one of the massive protest rallies in moscow square that it really hit people the first time when i saw the crowd rocking it's easy to park right next to ours in the station and i realized how soon was people really turned uncontrollable in the matter of a second and held in just as easily chaos rebirth of people trying to get the political point across in the past twelve months. the best way to do that would be a bag on your head and do some rugby don't sing in a cathedral the one thing that was important to get across when we were covering it is people's political flavors in this country the fact was that what they did was deeply offensive to

a huge number of people not something that they consider when they were looking at the case. when they made a press release about its our interview with president putin the first that he's ever given us he's stirred inauguration we see dozens and dozens of calls from international media representatives and they were all asking us just one question did he say anything about the pussy rights case nothing was out of this in fact the more challenging it is the one gauging the conversation would be of course not. i want to hear his thoughts on the ongoing syrian conflict also whether the polish. was indeed with the two heavy interesting comments to make about that. russian opposition movement one of our big stories of the year. and i think it's good that people are conscious about. is not a big deal among most people here in this country. can only be good for society and i think.

what a recap of our breaking news pilot error thought to be the most likely cause of a plane crash in moscow redwings flight to number six eight from the czech republic overshot the runway at the city's airport and plowed into a major highway the plane's right wing caught fire after the crash only eight people all of them crew members were on board the plane which can carry more than two hundred passengers four people have been killed the other four are in a serious condition with head injuries emergency services say the captain is among the dead and a criminal case has been launched. coming up after a short break abby martin breaking the set.

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